Am I "doing it wrong"? Lol

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I built a fairly nice HTPC, but then I got kind of hooked on my new Apple TV, and having PLEX/HULU/NETFLIX/and other channels all in one place, all quick and easy to power up and power down with my little apple remote.

But am I “doing it wrong”? Am I getting a less than optimal audio or video experience? My high-end plasma is 1080p. The HTPC is a recent model Intel designed for such use. My AVR is an Onkyo TX-NR807 I think.

Does audio or video conversion take a hit streaming to the AppleTV? I do have issues with DTS encoded videos I download from the interwebs when I play them on PLEX. I get a center channel that is too loud to the point of distortion, sometimes. Not sure if it’s amateurish encoding or just something that should be avoided.

Thoughts?

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Plex can only output what the client in question supports, so;

Dictates what can and cannot be done. Afaik, and by reading above, DTS does not seem to be supported. Thus, the audio will be transcoded.